Example sentences of "[modal v] be [v-ing] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 A good dancing tune now , or else you might be dancing yourself on the end of a rope . ’
2 I could be putting him on the spot .
3 They could be doing it on a Yes well ninety per cent of them will be P five .
4 If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis .
5 I shall be watching him on the television . ’
6 Both sides of the House could and should support most of its provisions , but where improvements are necessary we shall be pressing them on the Minister , and I hope that we shall receive as fair a hearing from him as I have tried to give his Bill this afternoon .
7 And normally they wo n't be as easy as this , so you probably will be doing them on the calculator , so to do this you just do , erm one take away whatever the per centage is .
8 I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto .
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